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I don’t think most people know better now.. most people probably haven’t even heard of ball lightning
by thatswrong0 9y ago
I don’t think most people know better now.. most people probably haven’t even heard of ball lightning
- matte_black 9y agoYou really think people would see a ball of lightning floating toward them and think “Wow I should touch that!”
- ams6110 9y ago"Hold my beer and watch this!"
- mrexroad 9y agoNo, of course not, because people likely think, “wow I gotta get this on YouTube and see what happens when I touch it.”
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoUm, wasn't that your theory? You claimed more people were killed by ball lightning in the old days before people knew what it was.
- topmonk 9y agoThe point is that they didn't even know what electricity was. If they saw a spark they wouldn't think, "Oh, high voltage", but rather "Must be supernatural, or a holy light"
- matte_black 9y agoExactly this. Today we don’t think much about electricity, we take it for granted but at least know it’s dangerous.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoSee my reply to topmonk.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoAncient people were not as stupid as you think. They knew that lightning was dangerous. More to the point, they knew that fire was dangerous--ball lightning resembles a floating orb of sun-bright fire, and any human will instinctively avoid such a thing. Historical phenomena later believed to be ball lightning were usually described at the time as "balls of fire." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ball_lightning https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ball_lightning
- matte_black 9y agoI don’t think Ancient people were stupid, they just didn’t have access to certain knowledge yet.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoYou're imagining that because they didn't know why something was happening, they were incapable of reacting to it in any rational way. You don't need a working theory of electricity to know that fire and lightning are dangerous.